06 September 2022; MEMO: The family of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has rejected an Israeli army report on her killing. Abu Akleh was killed while covering a raid by Israeli troops in Jenin refugee camp on 11 May.
03 September 2022; MEMO: The United States compelled Iran, for a second time this week, to release US military sail drones that it tried to seize at sea, a US defence official said on Friday, Reuters reports.
Iran has been building up its naval presence in the Red Sea, near the coast of Yemen where Tehran backs the Houthi Movement, after sending vessels there more than a decade ago to protect Iranian oil tankers and merchant ships against piracy.
01 September 2022; MEMO: The US hopes Turkiye and Greece will refrain from statements and actions that could intensify tensions following Athens' recent harassment of Turkish fighter jets that were carrying out missions in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas, a US official told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity.
01 September 2022; MEMO: US President Joe Biden, on Wednesday, reiterated his country's commitment to not allow Iran to become a nuclear power, Anadolu News Agency reports.
In a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, Biden "underscored the US commitment to never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon," according to a readout by the White House.
30 August 2022; MEMO: Accusations of anti-Semitism has become an arsenal to crackdown on critics of Israel, prominent American Jewish commentator, Peter Beinart, has argued in an article in the New York Times.
30 August 2022; MEMO: The United States has been putting pressure on Israel to fulfil the promise made to President Joe Biden to ease the travel of Palestinians through border crossing with Jordan.
27 August 2022; AA: Frank McKenzie, a former top general who led US Central Command from 2019 to April 2022, has said that Washington engaged in failed nation-building in Afghanistan and insisted on a Western model for the country which was wrong.
27 August 2022; AA: The US announced Friday that it will appoint an envoy for the Arctic region for the first time in its history amid Russia’s increased military actions in the region recently.
"... the President plans to elevate the Arctic Coordinator position by appointing an Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic Region, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate," Vedant Patel, deputy spokesperson of the State Department, said in a written statement.
27 August 2022; MEMO: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani announced on Friday that the US military presence in Syria is illegal.
Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported that Kanaani expressed: "Condemnation of the recent American aggression against defenders of Syria's independence and territorial integrity."
The United States, on Monday, pushed back against Iranian accusations of delaying the indirect talks aimed at reinstating the 2015 nuclear deal, saying it was working as quickly as it can to put together an appropriate response to Tehran's comments on a draft text put forward by the European Union, Reuters reports.
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